Brooder.



PATENTBD JAN. 30, 1906Y P. GATS. BRUODBR.

APPLICATION rILmJ MY e, 1905.

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witnesses PAUL (IOA'IS, 0F LAlltAlllll'l, ILLINOIS.

BROODER.

Specification of Lettera Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 190B.

Appiwaann and my e. isos. sarai no. 259.175.

To all whorri/ it nutty concern.'

Beit known that I, PAUL CoArs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at La rairie, in the county of Adams and State of llinois, have invented new and useul Imrovements in Broeders, of which the followine is a specification.

he invention relates to an improvement in broeders of simple construction and operation.

The main object of the present invention resides in the production of a brooder designed for adjustment to accommodate the growing fowls and adapted to readily retain the heat directed thereto, whereby the efficiency and usefulness of the brood er are materially increased.

The preferred details of structure are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a brooder constructed in accordance with in v invention. Fie. :2 is a bottom plan of the hover-board, s lowing the curtain in place thereon.

Referring articularly to the drawings, my improved rooder comprises a base-hoard l, from which vertically extends a perforate cylinder 2, such as screen-cloth or the like, and within which cylinder the heating nicdium is arranged, as is usual in devices of this character.

3 represents the hover-board, prefernblv circular in plan and provided wit-li a depending cylindrical ange 4', arranged centrally thereof and of a sine to snugly embrace the heat-cylinder 2, pro'ccting from the hase. To the lower side of t. 1e hover-board I secure a heat-retaining medium 4, preferal'ily sheepskin with the wool side thereof facing toward the base-board 1 or within the broeder. A circular flange 5 is secured to the periphery of the hoverhoard, pi'eferalily projecting above and below the surface of the binari.. A ring 6, preferably of wire or the like, is arranged to frictionallv eiifrage the flange 5 thereof on the out-er side thereof, and lo this ring is secured a curtain ,of suitable llcxihle material and designed to depend toward and contact with the base l, it heingir understood that the curtain incloses the space within thc plane of the hover-board.

The construction shown and described provides a broeder having a hover-board slidahly connected with the base and an inclosing curtain sliclably connected with the llover-boa rd.

The use of my invention is obvious from the above description, it heilig understood that the hover-board is vertically adjusted with relation to the base through the slidin engagement of the c Tlindri'cal flange 4 an the heat-cylinder 2, t 1e curtain-ring 6 being adjusted vertically with relation to the flan e 5 of the hover-board to insure contact of t e bottom of the curtain with the base in all ositions of said hover-hoard. The shecps in 4,with the wool next the brooding-chamber, is eliective for receiving and maintaining an even temperature within the broeder, the wool actin in a measure as a substitute for the natura feather covering of the mother fowl. The broeder may be adjusted as desired to accommodate the growing fowlS, the adjustment of the curtain insuring an inelosin" medium at all times.

llt is to he understood that l contemplate the use of any desired or preferred form of heater, as such in its detail, so far as the present invention is concerned, is immaterial.

Having now described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is

1. A broeder comprising a hase and a vertical ad'ustable hover-board, and an adjustable inclosing curtain.

2. A broeder coinprisinv a hase, a fleecelined hover-hoard vertical v adjustable with relation to the base, and an inclosiug curtain vertically adj ustablc with relation to the hover-board.

A broeder comprising a base, a perforate guard-cylinder projecting from the hase a hover-boa rd having a depending c vlindrica flange to einhracesaid guard-cylinder, and an inclosing curtain vertically adjustable with relation to said liover-lioard.

4. A lirooiler com risingr n hase provided with n verticeily-projecting pcrloialc guardcyliiider. a llover-hoard slidiililv connected to said giiiird-ci'linilcr, a verl ii'iilly-zirriinged llungi secured in tlii` ici'ililieiy ol' the liiwilhoard, :i curtain-ring iiictionallv and slidiihly engaging said llinigc, :uid a curtain depending` from su id ring.

5. A lirooder comprising a base provided IOS with a. verticallyrejecting perforate guard In testimony whereof I ailix my signature cylindezgda fcecinedl holvlerbom'd shdullly in presence of two witnesses.

connecte to sai( vuurt -cy `u( er,u,vetica yuxrangnl Hung@ secured to the periphery of PAUL LOAIS- the hover-board, a curtain-ring vertically Witnesses:

and slidubly enwaging said Hangs, and a. cur- W. L. EYMAN, tain depending from said ring. F. W. HOGSE'IT, 

